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We started a trivia thread over at another forum and it has been a lot of fun.

Here are the ground rules. It starts with one question. The first reply with the right answer gets the floor for a new question. It continues like that unless, A) the person who has the floor doesn't ask a new question, or B) no one gets the correct answer. In that case, the person with the floor asks a new question. No more than one question on the floor at a time, and discussion/clarification is welcome until the floor is taken over by a new question.

See this thread for an example of how it goes: http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/trivia/1454/page1/

First question: In the 1952 Indy 500, what type of fuel was burned in the record-setting pole-position #28 car? Hint: it won pole position by a full 4 mph over the second-place Ferrari
 
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boothboy said:
How thick is the material? How big are the holes? Are they normally attached with a rivet?
About an eighth inch thick material about five inches long. The holes are about 5/16" I think, and no, they are attached with bolts, with only the rivet holding the two pieces of the bracket shown together.

And no they are not rad core brackets. You can see these brackets while just walking by the car.

garrell.770 said:
Do they have anything to do with the suspension maybe some type of bracket for the hairpin suspension pieces?

Garrell
Nope.

Brian
 
#3,234 ·
MARTINSR said:
About an eighth inch thick material about five inches long. The holes are about 5/16" I think, and no, they are attached with bolts, with only the rivet holding the two pieces of the bracket shown together.

And no they are not rad core brackets. You can see these brackets while just walking by the car.



Nope.

Brian
This is one bracket assy, not two individual brackets?
 
#3,239 ·
The vehicale had to be pre-war because he said you could see it by just looking at the car. Everything past 1936-7 and some earlier had the bumper closer to the body so you would have to bend down to see that bracket. Brian likes and has Model A's. A shot in the dark!
Elementary my dear Watson!
 
#3,241 ·
Boothboy, you got it as I was looking for exactly what car too. But if you want to give it to Dan, that's cool. As long as he gets off his butt and asks the question. :D

Brian
 
#3,242 ·
Cadillac had 2 V-16 models of cars on the drawing board, custom coaches. One was a 1934, the other a 1937 model. They were built about 50 years later. What model numbers were they and what did they fetch at an auction this year? Whom (2 people) had these cars built?
 
#3,243 ·
They were 452/90's
The 1934 fetched $1,001,000
The 1937 fetched $962,500
The 1934 was built for Fran Roxas
The 1937 was built for Bob Milhous

Interestingly enough there was a second 1934 V-16 452/90 built after Roxas car was built with the main differences being shortened front door to accommodate a small door for stowing a set of golf clubs. This car is owned by Steve Plunkett
 
#3,245 ·
Nope , I haven't read a Hemmings for awhile. My brains full of junk. I remember bits and pieces and can figure things out.
one of the neat things about those two Caddies is that they were both fabricated by the same guy! Scott Knight, a CA. boy!

Here is a easy one. I found this at a swap meet years ago. I got it for 50 cents because they didn't know what it was and I wouldn't tell them unless I got it for half a buck. I got it so I could shove it in peoples faces and say, "Yeah, I betcha you don't know what this is!"
 

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